RoadRunner Intercepts Bad URLs, Bypassing Browsers

shaunco writes: Sometime around midnight on February 26th (at least for the SoCal users), TimeWarner's RoadRunner service started intercepting failed DNS requests, redirecting them to RoadRunner's own search and advertising platform. To see if this has been enabled in your area, try visiting www.jkshdfkljh23sadf.com (or something else random) in your web browser. This feature subverts user preferences set within their web browsers, which allow the user to select which search engine receives their typeos and invalid domains.

RoadRunner user's can disable this by visiting: http://ww23.rr.com/prefs.php.

An example RoadRunner results page can be seen at: http://ww23.rr.com/index.php?origURL=http://www.jkshdfkljh23sadf.com.